Microsoft announced their new version of Windows is going to be called “Windows 7″ here. Hmmm… How creative. Perhaps I’m just used to real code names…. so… to make this “my own” I came up with a better one with the “7″. Here’s my rendition:   “Windows se7en, an operating system so gangster it’ll cut you if you slip, son.”   Ok, maybe that wouldn’t work, but hey, its funny....
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As I promised, here is the full source and presentation for this weekends presentation at the Twin Cities Code Camp. The talk was entitled: Smooth Operator: Using the Workflow Rules Engine within WCF Ever changing business logic requires rule systems that are flexible to business demands. The majority of the time the business requires that these rules systems must be consumable by other applications. Come see how we can utilize the Rules Engine within Windows Workflow Foundation to evaluate our rules and simplify our rules configuration. We will then encompass this functionality within a...
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I just got off a really long week at a client setting up Team Foundation Server. Tonight I was putting some final touches on my WCF portion of my Twin Cities Code Camp talk that is going to be tomorrow. Having a 4 week old baby and having travlled all day yesterday with no sleep due to the baby has left me in an “altered state”. AKA: I’m not running on all cylinders right now. Anyway … to the good stuff…   I kept getting the following error:   “The client was unable to retrieve service metadata. Make sure the service is running and exposing...
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My plan today was to upgrade Team Foundation Server 2008 to Service Pack 1 (SP1) today. My client runs a dual server implementation and we run Team Explorer on the App Tier of this set up. Therefore we needed to upgrade Team Explorer and TFS itself to SP1 for 2008.   Round 1 The TFS SP1 Documentation states the following – “…you should first install SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and then install SP1 for Team Foundation Server on any server that is running both Team Foundation Server and Team Explorer. If you try to update Team Foundation Server first, the update will...
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I’ve been asked for my Visual Studio Settings many times from clients, friends, colleagues and readers. I tend towards a dark scheme to help my eyes so I’m not squinting all day.   On the left, you’ll see a preview of what it looks like (minus the red marks – of course).   You can download the settings here: DonnFelker.vssettings Note: You will need the Consolas Font for these settings....
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